~ Daily musings from a slightly bent brain.

No snappy title here

I picked New England over Denver for last night’s game and Denver handed New England a sound beating, shutting them out completely until the fourth quarter.

Amazingly enough, Jake Plummer finished the game with a passer rating over 100, bringing his overall rating up into the 60’s now, moving UP 5 more notches overall, and SEVEN above Big Ben Roethlisberger, who is still sitting in the anemic (and benchable) 30s. He’s just seemed terribly tentative since his surgery.

The Manning brothers enjoy mid 90s ratings and are together at the top of the list. However, most amazingly, David Carr leads the pack with a 113. I tell you, Gary Kubiak is a good coach and a GREAT offensive man and a PHENOMENAL QB coach. Maybe in the next year or two he can build himself a really talented team and show the world that the Houston Texans need not be laughed at any more.

Chris Simms’ spleenectomy following the game yesterday was a real shocker, too. Makes you wonder how long he played with that ruptured spleen.

I read a news article this morning that indicates that the Rochester City Council sent a letter to the New York Legislature “…calling for an end to discrimination against same-sex couples” and urging them to pass legislation to legalize same-sex marriages.

This area of New York tends to lean more toward the conservative yet the entire City Council signed the letter without batting an eye. It is felt that, because this area tends to be very conservative, this letter might have more weight at the legislative level.

Democrat Elliot Spitzer, the current state AG (who issued an opinion in 2004 saying that marriages that originate outside the jurisdiction of NY should be recognized) is the overwhelming favorite for governor this year at election time and strongly supports same-sex marriages as well. While we could lost the battle in court, we could end up winning it through the legislature. We’ll see…

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My ex, the putz, filed for bankruptcy a while back when he stopped paying child support. He listed me as a “debt” and forgot to tell the bankruptcy attorney that the “debt” was child support arrears. The money stopped coming in sometime around March and his arrears got up to $3500. When I got the paperwork from the bankruptcy attorney, I forwarded it to the Child Support Enforcement Unit that is handling my case. Guess what? I’ve gotten a check for $200 each of the past two weeks. I guess the bankruptcy attorney had to restructure the structured payments to include child support, rather than dismissing the “debt.”

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I spent a quiet day yesterday watching football and knitting. I got quite a bit done, and am now just about a third of the way through the project (the “flag” blanket for my oldest grandson). Of course, Idgie was a tremendous help, helping feed the yarn to me, making sure the ends of my knitting needles were moving in a continuous motion, and test driving the “layability” of the blanket. It’s so good to have help.

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I made a pot of KILLER chowdah yesterday. This time of year my crockpot comes out of the closet (literally) and stays out. I love crockpot cooking — not only is the food fantastic coming out of it, but it’s great to not have to come home and cook.

Yesterday I made a ham chowder, with mixed vegetables and pearl onions. Tonight I’m going to put together the fixings for a wonderful chicken stroganoff that I found in a great recipe book called Grandma’s Casseroles. Believe me when I say that the recipes in this book are fantastic and very down-to-earth. One thing I hate about cook books is that most of the foods are too “exotic” for everyday down-to-earth, shoestring-budget types of folks like us. Grandma’s is old-fashioned recipes with old-fashioned ingredients and down-home goodness.